Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
I respect that Europeans have a very different view on the sanctity of criminal life, but my view is that if you're going to break into my house you had better be willing to suffer the consequences.
It's not that different really.

The difference for me is that I rather live in a country where 2 relatively harmless people want to steal my stuff and I don't need a gun to defend myself usually than in a country where 20 armed gunmen/knifemen would like to rob my stuff but I get a chance to shoot back. Neither guns nor self defense are illegal here after all. We're just don't worship and propagate either of them all the time whenever we get a chance.
We also seem to have less guys with knives who are after our families. I'm just saying there may be a connection.